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Meaning of nigrify | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To make black in colour; to blacken.

transitive

Examples

“An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

nigrifying nigs nihilate nihilated nihilates nihilating